Ontario News

TORONTO — Ontario public high school teachers will not go on strike this fall, if members accept a tentative agreement reached Friday by their union to use binding arbitration if needed to get a contract.

TORONTO — Canadians soon won't find Kleenex tissues on store shelves. The Kleenex consumer facial tissue business is leaving Canada this month, U.S. manufacturer Kimberly-Clark said in a statement Friday.

TORONTO — Metro Inc. is seeking an injunction against striking employees who are picketing its warehouses and preventing deliveries to stores in Ontario, the grocer said Friday.

WATERLOO, ONTARIO — Police say a man accused in a triple stabbing at a University of Waterloo gender studies class is now facing a charge of attempted murder.

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Friday on the Toronto Stock Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange (19,835.75, up 59.92 points): Toronto-Dominion Bank. (TSX:TD). Finance. Down 30 cents, or 0.37 per cent, to $80.37 on 6.3 million shares.

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index climbed on Friday, buoyed by strength in the energy sector, while U.S. markets also rose following a speech by U.S.

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Friday he's confident that nothing criminal took place in his government's process of removing land from the protected Greenbelt for housing development.

Ontario is putting $160 million toward skills training programs, prioritizing help for people on social assistance and people with criminal records.

TORONTO — The Toronto International Film Festival is set to lose Bell as its leading sponsor.

The provincial government says the cleanup of chemicals that spilled into two creeks after an industrial fire in west Toronto is expected to take until October.